CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
WIN £500
FOR your chance to win, solve the crossword to reveal the word reading down the shaded boxes. HOW TO ENTER: Call 0901 293 6233 and leave today’s answer and your details, or TEXT 65700 with the word CRYPTIC, your answer and your name. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Or enter by post by sending completed crossword to Daily Mail Prize Crossword 16,291, PO Box 28, Colchester, Essex CO2 8GF. Please include your name and address. One weekly winner chosen from all correct daily entries received between 00.01 Monday and 23.59 Friday. Postal entries must be datestamped no later than the following day to qualify. Calls/texts must be received by 23.59; answers change at 00.01. UK residents aged 18+, exc NI. Terms apply, see Page 66.
ACROSS
1 Utter words rhythmically, aimlessly and fast (7) 5 Demand twin sister’s portion (6) 9 Hapless king entertained by a French girl (7) 10 Broadcast brief description of weather in July? (7) 11 I agree a positive answer should be cut (3) 12 Limit dealing with firm at home importing oxygen (11) 13 Begin to vary drink
excessively (5) 14 Slate table broken by
the Spanish pundit? (9) 16 Trading on-line, English come car Ill-defined (1-8) across onset German of 17 violent fever (5) 19 Award roughly emblazoned around runner’s front (6,5) 22 Like small animal (3) 23 Where to teach driver’s child within range (7) 24 Illegal position in game
is right in uk (7) 26 More work needed to
get ideal location (6) 27 Under the table, ie deeply drunk, left abandoned (3-4)
DOWN
1 Plant top-of-the-range pub in the middle (7) 2 Fossil expert friend takes a long time to record one stone (15) 3 Conservative party swaps places for medic (3) 4 Yankees bring in old, very large toys (2-3) 5 Stylish American revolutionary organised church cover (9) 6 French novelist pulled up tree (5) 7 A measure of alcohol – it’s included in correct sauce (8,7) 8 Young swimmer sounds like small seal (6) 12 Sign of a cold space by the sound of it (5) 14 Extremely petty European country’s burning desire? (9) 15 Even students go over the day before (5) 16 Give relief to manager after middle of November? (6) 18 Journalist hides a gun in part of London (4,3) 20 Secure more expensive belt first (3,2) 21 Impecunious director backed flop (5) 25 Notice reduced charge (3)
NEED A CLUE? Text TIP to 65700 to receive FOUR answers to today’s crossword, or call 0901 293 6236. Texts and calls cost £1 plus standard network charges. Today’s clues available between 00.01 today and 23.30 only.